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David Gordon reviews Binyamin Appelbaum’s The Economists’ Hour. As a criticism of the free market, the book is a manifest failure.
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One of the reasons Charlie Kirk was considered “divisive” was that he spoke out against the civil rights laws, which was interpreted as his...
Modern states are responsible for modern wars, with its millions of victims. Libertarianism is optimally placed to contribute to this understanding and shows the...
In the weeks leading up to his September 10 assassination, Kirk had come to loathe the Israeli leader, regarding him as a “bully.”
Black swans don’t cause crashes: they reveal them. Mark Thornton shows how easy money breeds “sequestered capital” in opaque assets, priming the next bust.
David Gordon reviews Binyamin Appelbaum’s The Economists’ Hour. As a criticism of the free market, the book is a manifest failure.
Bob Murphy reviews The Gold Standard: Retrospect and Prospect.
For all of the talk about the need for “limited government,” we should always remember that the government has a legal monopoly on violence,...
Even if all the practical challenges could be overcome, social economic calculation and planning are still impossible from a computation-theoretic point of view.
Rate cut to “stimulate” jobs? Powell: “while the labor market appears to be in balance, it is a curious kind of balance that results...
Though progressive reformers were met with mixed success, the theoretical shift away from natural rights left a lasting legacy in the American political landscape.
The files provide a fresh and often disturbing look at a spy described by historian Jefferson Morley as “a leading architect of America’s strategic...
Keynesian economists like to claim that government budget surpluses amount to “national savings.” However, real savings are used to spur capital development, which government...
Our corrupt economic system was created by people born decades before the Boomers were adults. The boomers just got lucky in a system that...